How George Hotz Hack iPhone (the Hillary behind it?)

[Mechatrommer]

while killing time, it usually started with some random youtube on my channel wall... what was meant only took couple of minutes can turn into couple of hours it started with youtube title "Sony Attacked Anonymous And Immediately Regretted it" YT id: 66A4zcJaPLk... and then came the name George Hotz, clueless about who he is (yeah you can say i'm living in a cave), so the google investigation started, after reading some links i thought wow this guy could be the 2nd Kevin Mitnick! so then trying to google how this "geniusity", his 1st hack that made his famous is exactly this thread's topic and what i typed in google hunt (excluding whats inside the bracket)... so the politics behind it revealed (including Elon Musk's)...

Reminder that geohot wasn't the first person to jailbreak an iPhone

if its true, then its quite hilarious as equally quite typical (we usually rely on the works of others) except he's quite lucky he started too young than most of us... probably his father bought him a good PC and he was living in a conducive hacking environment.

another thing is OpenPilot the only post mentioning his name in this forum is this https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/non-reprogrammable-gate-array-as-aposed-to-field-reprogrammable-gate-array/msg3914087/#msg3914087 (this thread will be the second i guess) so his name is credited to this great self driving software, but OpenPilot is based on OpenAI isnt it which is created by a bunch of pHD holders in IT, so not so much wonder there, you and i  can probably make some script on top of OpenAI and create something wonderful too right? given enough time and courage...

with all this mumbling, its not actually my point.. my point actually is.. then i look up in google if there is any picture of his room probably i can get some idea how he worked on hacking the iphone, i cant get any from google, but it turned out the picture is available (although he is a little bit older in the picture) in the first video i mentioned above with the id (minute 4:51)... i thought WHAT?! NO OSCILLOSCOPE?! how easy it is to hack iphone IC's communication protocol without a scope? just some fancy boxes and monitor, and some retro/vintage AC/fan unit at behind and whats that next to it? a nitrogen tank? probably the real persons who actually did the real work on jailbreaking the iphone, ps3 or samsung android are those the unsung heroes living under the rock with some power line wires poking in... ymmv.



so here it is, few hours wasted.... cheers.